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Slide Show: Behold, an Oasis

Posted May 19, 2009, 12:00pm

The Columbia Slough
ABOUT 20 YEARS AGO, when a handful of intrepid explorers began paddling the Columbia Slough, most people considered them 1) weird and 2) practically suicidal. At the time, the 18.7-mile slough, which runs roughly parallel to the Columbia River from near Gresham through North Portland, was no...